the photographs and diary of a bimbling boomer

Golden times.

Earlier this week I made the very long trip to meet up with The Bezzie to celebrate 50 years of friendship. She knows how much her friendship has meant and still means – I won’t labour the point.

We met at the station, travelled back to the Car Park to pick up R0X1 and LWD and got on the road. After a long and tiring drive we hooked up at Swiss Farm campsite. Now I don’t normally rave about sites, especially in this country, but this one really does match up with the best and that means as internationally as I get, which will increase, but more about that at a later date.

The staff were very friendly and welcoming, the necessaries were extremely clean and sweet smelling at all times, the site neat and well laid out with generously sized pitches, we were on a fully serviced pitch, fresh veg. from their own market garden available daily from a little honesty hut, heated swimming pool, free wifi, bar and cafe. As well as the usual motorhome services there was a machine the like of which I’ve not come across before – an automated toilet cassette emptier and cleaner. I’d’ve used it just for the giggle one of the pictures in the visual guide to use, a depiction of a neat pile of poo inside a cassette, gave me but actually used it twice once for the in use cassette and once for the spare (neither of which actually contained poo!!).

The cafe deserves a special mention. It’s really too good to be called a cafe. Once again the staff were very friendly, service was great and the food, admittedly not fine dining (but I wouldn’t have been eating there if it was), was fresh, tasty, beautifully cooked and I probably weigh half a stone more than I did on arrival – who wants to cook and then wash up when that quality is available at very reasonable price just 100 yards away.

An altogether brilliant couple of days, eating and drinking too much, a spot of walking and shopping, at all of which R and I excel!

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🙂 🙂 🙂

P.S. I exaggerated slightly about the journey – we went to Henley-on-Thames – all of seven miles away from the Car Park!!

« For my part, I travel not to go anywhere,
but to go.
I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move. »
– Robert Louis Stevenson,
‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes’

« The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say.